It’s really amazing to watch Robert Reich struggling with the most basic concepts in economics. Even when he’s latched onto something which is actually a good idea, like the universal basic income. He just still manages to get matters wrong. My own suspicion, as with that of Paul Krugman back […]

Some marketers make it to the top of the firm and some don’t. Why? What causes some careers to derail before they reach the pinnacle? It’s a question that young people ask and mature people ponder even after having working for 30 years. To better understand what derails executives in their march to the corner office, I turned to an executive coach, Susan Robertson, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Stop at Nothing, Inc.

Executive coaches are typically brought in by the board of directors or senior management to help enhance individual impact. In some cases, the executive coaches are brought in to address behavior that is preventing an executive from being effective. In other cases, they are simply a “gift” from the company to help an executive achieve even better performance.

Because of the role that Robertson and her company have played in helping top management team members (e.g., CEO, CMO, CFO, etc.) overcome barriers and achieve better performance, I thought it might be helpful to gain insight on what seem to be the biggest “derailers”—those behaviors that prevent individuals from being as effective as possible. Robertson presented at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and what follows are excerpts from her discussion.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilians vote on Sunday in the first elections since the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff – and her leftist Workers Party (PT) is expected to suffer a major setback.

Candidates aren’t talking about climate change because voters consider other issues more pressing, leading Republican and Democratic pollsters agreed in Chicago last week. But those same voters overwhelmingly support clean energy.

Hawaii’s tremulous effort to embrace solar energy—but not too fast—may be holding at bay a mass adoption of rooftop solar in the island state, according to experts who have compared data to established patterns of human behavior.

Donald Trump with supporters last week in Virginia. Will he use the trail time instead to seek out examples of how government is failing the nation? (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images) It’s a football weekend in America. Yet, at the risk of drawing a flag for piling on, I’d like […]